Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

About Firebolt

Firebolt is the Cloud Data Warehouse designed to handle the speed, scale, and flexibility of AI applications. By delivering ultra-low latency, high concurrency, multi-dimensional elasticity, and flexibility, Firebolt empowers organizations to build data-intensive AI applications that perform at scale. With over $270m in funding to date, a strong engineering team and highly experienced leadership, Firebolt is well positioned to revolutionize the AI data infrastructure space and help businesses unlock the full potential of their data.

About the Tea

mWe are the Firebolt Storage team, responsible for managing customer data at petabyte scale. Our mission is to ensure sub-second query latencies by optimizing data retrieval, ingestion, and caching. We enable customers to bring data to Firebolt from various data sources, including data lakes, and ensure the performance of all operations to achieve sub-second query execution speeds

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About the Ro

leAs the core component powering efficient data access needed for sub-second analytics over petabytes of data, we own the organization, indexing, compression, and internal data storage formats. We are responsible for access methods needed by the query engine, data ingestion, and core DML (update, insert, delete) flows. Additionally, we ensure the efficient import and export of customer data in various formats from and to customer-owned data source

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This is a senior+ level role, ideal for someone with experience leading small teams or coming from Senior, Staff, or Principal positio

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About the day to

• dayDesign, develop and deliver high-quality features that enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency of our product and cutting-edge database eng
• ine.Develop the highly distributed, multi-threaded, low-latency core engine, build automated coverage for your features, and ensure the robustness and reliability of our prod
• uct.Share knowledge, encourage collaboration, and mentor junior engineers, fostering a positive learning environment and guiding and supporting their professional developm
• ent.Actively participate in architectural discussions and code reviews, supporting informed decision-making aligned with business and engineering objecti
• ves.Provide exceptional support for our customers, ensuring their success and satisfaction with our product and servi

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Require

• ments5+ years of experience building production soft
• ware.Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experi
• ence.Experience building and operating highly concurrent, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed sys
• tems.Experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying secure services and applications, leveraging continuous integration and continuous delivery t
• ools.Development experience in an object-oriented programming language. We primarily develop in C++20. Some of our services and tests use GoLang and Python. Experience with these languages is a plus. You should be willing to understand and make cross-cutting changes in the Firebolt codebase regardless of the lang

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A bonus if yo

• u haveFluency in modern C++ (our codebase uses C
• ++20).Hands-on experience in building production cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, o
• r GCP.Experience with systems programming, OS internals, and low-latency applica
• tions.Experience with database inte